Variações linguísticas: uma abordagem histórica acerca das transformações da língua portuguesa.

Abstract

For a long time the Portuguese language teaching has estimated the normative grammar as effective in the proper use of the language process, a fact that affects the student to think about the existence of a wrong way of speaking rather than a right one. As a result of this attitude, groups of stigmatized ways of talking are excluded from society for speaking linguistically at odds with the grammatical rules adopted by educational institutions. This traditional way of approach makes it difficult to achieve the goal of training acting citizens in society and able to act in different contexts of language competence. Thus, we aimed to present a brief history of the Portuguese language and grammar for a better understanding of its origin and encourage mother tongue teachers to appreciate the linguistic variation, dealing with this reality in its many faces, not just idealize the formal structure of language. To do so, we discoursed about aspects of the historical approach of the Portuguese language, from its roots to the current time, the conceptions of language in different approaches, types of grammars and as the textbook presents this scenario. This is a literature-based work, with the use of Bagno considerations (1999 and 2007), Carvalho and Nascimento (1981), Coutinho (2011), Faraco (2005), Martelotta (2011), Orlandi (2009), addition to the PCN (1998), among others. We believe that the Portuguese language teaching methods should be reviewed by teachers who have good training and sociolinguistic knowledge base, now considering the variation and linguistic diversity of students, explaining that language is shaped according to the communicative situations.